Language/ English
Leonard Bloomfield
- New Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers 2012
- 566
The study of language -- The use of language -- Speech-communities -- The languages of the world -- The phoneme -- Types of phonemes -- Modifications -- Phonetic structure -- Meaning -- Grammatical forms -- Sentence-types -- Syntax -- Morphology -- Morphologic types -- Substitution -- Form-classes and lexicon -- Written records -- The comparative method -- Dialect geography -- Phonetic change -- Types of phonetic change -- Fluctuation in the frequency of forms -- Analogic change -- Semantic change -- Cultural borrowing -- Intimate borrowing -- Dialect borrowing -- Applications and outlook.